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Thanks! I'm a little scared that things haven't change a lot
by coppolaemilio 12y ago
Thanks! I'm a little scared that things haven't change a lot
- angersock 12y agoRob Pike is hilariously bitter on that point.
- s-phi-nl 12y agoCan you give an example? That sounds interesting.
- icebraining 12y agohttp://slashdot.org/story/04/10/18/1153211/rob-pike-responds?nobeta=1 http://slashdot.org/story/04/10/18/1153211/rob-pike-responds... See the 10th question. Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8380288 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8380288
- reirob 12y agoHe seemed to have said: "I worked entirely on Plan 9, which I still believe does a pretty good job of solving those fundamental problems." I would like to hear what exactly was done better in Plan 9 in regards to IPC. If I recall correctly Plan 9 is open source now - is there more development going on now or is it stalled?
- ue_ 12y agoThere are forks which are undergoing active development like 9front, although I don't think anything from Bell Labs is still coming with respect to plan 9.
- peterkelly 12y ago"Systems Software Research is Irrelevant" by Rob Pike http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf There's some pretty brutal truths here.
- pjmlp 12y agoThat is what happens when you get almost a UNIX mono-culture between desktop and server, killing almost all other alternatives that existed. Nowadays, the only places where OS research seems to be alive is in cloud, embedded and real time OSs.